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-*All.HANDS* VEBUREAU OF NAVAL PERSONNEL CAREER PUBLICATION 1 9 6 8 Nav-Pers-0MAY 1968 NUMBER 616 ~ VICE ADMIRAL CHARLES K. DUNCAN, USN TheChief of Naval Personnel REAR ADMIRAL BERNARD M. STREAN, USN j All HANDS ,“,;~~~e,ofc~~~; :ye TheDeputy Chief of Naval Personnel , I Publicotion, is publishedmonthly by the CAPTAIN JAMES G. ANDREWS, USN : Bureou of NavalPersonnel for the infor- 4 AssistantChief for Morale Services motion and interest of the naval service ! as o whole. Issuance ofthis publication approved in occordonce with Deportment of the Novy Publications and Printing TABLE OF CONTENTS Regulations, NAVEXOS P-35. Opinions ex- pressed are not necessarily those of the Features Navy Department. Reference to regulo- TheMail GetsThrough: Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor HeavySeas ........ 2 tions,orders and directivesis forinfor- motiononly and does notby publication Navy Citations-Heroism and Teamwork: A Tradition .......................... 8 herein constituteauthority for oction. All A School Fit for aKing ............................................................................ 11 originol moteriol moy be reprinted os de- Recording Your Navy‘s HistoryWith Brush and Palette ........................ 12 sired if proper credit is given ALL HANDS. Originalarticles and information of gen- Navy’s ContributingArtists: AnIllustrious List ........................................ 16 eralinterest maybe forwarded oddressed Hunley-SubmarinePioneer .................................................................... 19 to the Editor, ALLHANDS, Pers G15, BuPers,Navy Deportment, Washington. Three Cheers for the USNR ...................................................................... 20 D.C. 20370 (see poge 64). DISTRIBU- Shootingthe Works at PhotographersSchool ........................................ 24 TION: By Section B-3203 of the Bureou of Naval PersonnelMonuol, the Bureoudi- DestroyerSquadron .................................................................................. 25 rects thatoppropriote steps be taken to Good Lox .................................................................................................. 38 insuredistribution on the bosis of one ‘Set the Replenishment Detail’ 41 copy for each 10 officers and enlisted .................................................................. personnel. Centerspread Feature TheBureau invites requests for oddi- tionol copies as necessary to comply with Mail for the Military Man ........................................................................ 32 the basic directives. Departments TheBureou should be kept informed of changes in the number of copies required. Letters to the Editor .................................................................................. 27 TheBureou should also be advised if Today’s Navy ............................................................................................ 34 the full number of copies is not received regulorly. 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Requests from MarineActivi- ~ NavalAviator Receives Thirty Awardsfor Valor .................................... 60 tiesshould be addressed to the Com- mandont. PERSONALCOPIES: This Taffrail Talk ................................................................................................. 64 magazine is for sole by Superintendent of Documents, US. Government Printing Office, Washington. D.C. 20402. Therate John A. Oudine, Editor for ALLHANDS is 25 cents per copy; subscription price $2.50 o year, domestic Associate Editors (including FPO and APO address for G. Vern Blasdell, News overseas moil); $3.50 foreign. Remittances Don Addor, Layout & Art should be mode to the Superintendent of Ann Hanabury, Reseurch Documents. Subscriptionsare accepted for one, two or three years. Gerald Wolff, Reserve 0 FRONT COVER:COMBAT ART-USS Angler (SS 240) pullsalongside a pierin this water- colortitled ”Anchor Detail”done by combat artistTom O’Hora. For more information on combat artistsand the Navy’s combat art program, check thearticle in this issue. 0 AT LEFT: AND AWAY WE GO-Shooting flames fromits afterburners, an F-4 Phantom launches from USS KittyHawk (CVA 63) whilean A-4 Skyhawk is readied to launch.-Photo byJim Folk, JOC, USN. CREDIT: All photographspublished in ALL HANDS Magazineare official Department of Defensephotos unless otherwise designated. ters, both official and personal which delivery across the Pacific. It is daily air transportation between the are marked “Air Mail,” sound re- called Parcel Airliftor PAL and continentalUnited States andthe corded communications and parcels. includespackages which weigh 30 Navy’s postal distribution points at The nexthighest transportation pounds orless and insize donot Yokohama, Japan,and Subic Bay, priority goes to military official mail. exceed 60 inches in combined length R. P., to take care of all air mail, air Thisincludes official lettersand and girth. parcel post, military official mail and parcels, both of whichshould be Such parcels travel by air as long most of the space available mail. marked FIRST CLASS-SPECIAL as they are in the United States and, Yokohama, wemight interject at HANDLING. while en route overseas, they travel this point, is theterminal which If any space remains in the plane by airon a spaceavailable basis. serves Japan, Taiwan, Okinawa and after the air mail and military official The sender of a PAL parcel, how- Korea. It takesfrom three to five mail is put aboard for ultimate de- ever, need pay only the postage re- days for a letter mailed in the United livery in Vietnam, still another type quired for theparcel to reach the States to arrive in any of these gets a break and is sent by air. Fleet PostOffice viasurface trans- countries. This is space available mailand portationplus a flat charge of one Mailgoing fromcontinental includespersonal firstclass letters, dollar. If the parcel weighs upward United States to units operating off sound recorded communications hav- to the 30-pound limit, this proves to the coast of Vietnam travels by air ing thecharacter of personal cor- be quite a saving to the sender. to Subic Bay, R. P., which is the respondence, FREE mail en route Space available mail also includes clearing house for letters and parcels from combat areas and personal par- weekly (or more frequent) news addressed to Navymenat the nine cels marked SPACE AVAILABLE publications which are addressed to OperationMarket Time stations as MAIL SAM.or Theseparcels anyArmed Forces post officein a well as toother units operating in cannot weigh more than five pounds combat zone andto overseas areas andaround Vietnam. norcan they exceed 60 inches in designated as hardship, isolated or “combinedwidth and girth.” combat support areas. Mail whichdoes not qualify for HE MAIL destined for these loca- THEREHAS also been a fairly recent airlift is forwarded on the first avail- Ttions is loaded on board UNREP development in parcel mail trans- ablesurface transportation. shipswhich leave Subic Bay every portation which is designed to speed By andlarge, there is enoughthree days. These vessels arrive at the first MarketTime stop on the third day out of Subic Bay, proceed- ing northward through all their de- livery points. On theseventh day, they arrive at a Yankee Station car- rier operatingnear the Vietnamese demilitarizedzone where they re- ceiveoutgoing mail andreturn to Subic Bay. Mail (which rates air transporta- tion) for units operatingnorth of MarketTime Station One (the MT station farthest north) isflown di- rectly to a Yankee Station carrier from the Naval Air Station at Cubi Point. From the Yankee Station carrier, the mailusually is deliveredby helicopters to other units on Yankee Station and to units operating in the Tonkin Gulf. When delivery can’t be made by helicopters, themail is transferred from the carrier to an UNREP ship and delivered during normal under- way replenishment. Some space available and all sur- face mail going to ships onYankee Stationand north of MarketTime Area One is loaded at Subic Bay on the Yankee Station-bound UNREP ship for deliveryduring underway replenishment. One of thebest ways of under- standing howmail moves tothe Pacific Theater is to trace a letter ALL HANDS LETTERS GOING HOME are receivedfrom ships byYokosuka Post Office. Right: Operatingschedules are checkedbefore dispatching ship's mail. mailed at San Diego addressed to a Mail going to Navymen inside unit operatingon aMarket Time Vietnam arrives somewhatmore station alongthe coast of Vietnam. speedily. There are three mail gate- It takes about one and a half days ways to Vietnam-at Saigon,Da for the letter to travel fromSan Nang